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According to a survey conducted by Black Duck Software and North Bridge Venture Partners Open source software is taking over the software world. (I read it in this NetworkWorld article .) To be fair, there were only 800 participants in the survey, which means that there... [More]

I got the title of this article as a question through a private Facebook message. I decided that this is probably something that a lot of people are thinking about, so I figured I'd post my thoughts here. (I've also been very sparse at writing here so hopefully this will get me back on track.) My... [More]

I haven't been writing so much over the last few weeks. There are good reasons for it, but nothing that would particularly interest my average reader. Rest to say that I am living in interesting times. There's nothing really bad going on, but interesting nonetheless. There are a few things I'm... [More]

Lots of random things today. Today's silly email From: Scam Mail DO YOU NEED A LOAN, IF YES REPLY FOR MORE INFO. At least they are honest about scamming you. IBM Linux on POWER I think Linux and the POWER architecture are an outstanding combination. I would really like to see a new POWER laptop to... [More]

Today I got another one of those InfoWorld articles with one of those sensational titles called " Beware these open source lock-in schemes ". I had to take a look. The open-source world has really come a long way. I remember when telling people a product was open-source would be a cause... [More]

I was at an event this weekend. It was a non-technical event with a group of artists. One of them had designed something which could be customized and had a DVD showing exactly how to recreate what he was doing. On the DVD he included a PhotoShop template that would automatically remix an image... [More]

I recently had a call with some people who are interested in
contributing to the Real World Open Source and Real World Linux communities here one
developerWorks! Yay! I would like to see a lot more input by people in
these places. As a part of that conversation they requested me to
outline my... [More]

Black Hat 2012 Computer security fascinates me. I freely admit that I don't have the chops that many do about cracking into or securing syststems, but I do alright for myself... on securing systems, that is. I'm certainly not claiming in any way that I spend time engaged in any activity that could... [More]

Today I was looking over an interesting article called " Great open source map tools for Web developers ". Look, I'm taking off my IBM hat and setting it way over there. Now it's just you and me with no major corporations to bother us or be represented in any way. When you work in a... [More]

(updated 2/20/2013) NOTE: As of February 2013 I am no longer the editor for Linux and Open Source on developerWorks. Don't worry! I didn't get fired or anything. I got rolled into a new team which draws upon all the skills I applied on developerWorks as well as exercising some of my other... [More]